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The Shopping Trip

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A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third everything had just been reduced by 50 percent when her cell phone rang. It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible car accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU.

The woman asked the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that she’d be there as soon as possible.

As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the boutiques. She decided to hit a couple of more shops before heading to the hospital.

She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a cup of coffee and a slice of yummy chocolate cake, compliments of the last shop. She was jubilant.

Then she remembered her husband. Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital. She saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her husband’s condition.

The lady doctor glared at her and shouted, ‘You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn’t you!? I hope you’re proud of yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit! It’s just as well you went ahead and finished, because it will more than likely be the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life he will require round the clock care. And taking care of him will now be your career!’

The woman was feeling so guilty she broke down and sobbed.

The lady doctor then chuckled and said, ‘I’m just pulling your leg. He’s dead. Show me what you bought.’

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM

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Vince Neil – Chicken Dancing

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Ever wonder what your favorite rockers do when they’re not in the studio or on tour?

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 13, 2009 at 1:23 PM

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Benefit Tattoo Party

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Posted on behalf of Sherry’s Queen Of Hearts. Information courtesy of Mulysa.

I am trying to help raise money for some friends of mine at church. They were in an awful motorcycle wreck. On Wednesday, April 15th, from 11 a.m. to at least midnight I am going to do tats and 100% of the proceeds go to them to help with medical bills. I ask if you do get a tat to keep it to a minimum so I can do as many as possible. The minimum price will be $30.00 dollars. So please keep the tats small so I can move on to the next one as to raise as much as possible. I am not taking appointments that day so it will be first come first serve. There will be a sign in sheet to keep track of who’s next. They really need the financial help plus your prayers. I appreciate you all very much. So please come out and help me raise money for them.

Sherry’s Queen Of Hearts
1205 S Green St
Henderson, KY 42420
(270) 826-7701

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 13, 2009 at 7:50 AM

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The RIAA, ISPs, File Sharers & Slumping Music Sales

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I recently read an article on FoxNews.com about the RIAA pushing ISPs to cut off Internet access to their customers if they are accused of “illegal” file sharing three times. Note that I wrote accused of illegal file sharing, not proven to have illegally shared files. Scary.

Article link: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,510283,00.html

Since the days when Napster changed the way music is distributed online, the music industry has been trying its damnedest to un-ring that bell. Sorry folks, Pandora’s Box has been opened and you can no longer keep that much of a stranglehold on music. The music industry has never been about the music. It’s always been about controlling how that music was marketed and distributed and those days are long gone. Instead of adapting to this new frontier in the late 1990s and continuing to earn revenue, they chose to ignore the Internet distribution model and tried to sue Napster out of business. That only lead to the birth of other file sharing services such as Lime Wire, Gnutella, Bear Share, and many others.

The music industry response to the many different file sharing services was to start suing individuals for obscenely large amounts of money for the relatively few songs found on individual hard drives. Most people can’t afford the legal services required to go up against such a huge entity (which is exactly what they counted on) so they would settle out of court for amounts much less than the original number bust still grossly disproportional to the cost of a physical CD. Nice way to generate revenue when CD sales slump. That lasted longer than it should have. An individual finally fought the case instead of settling so they are now changing strategies again to try and maintain their outdated business model. This is where the ISPs come in. ISPs in most markets stand to lose customers if they cut them off so it is my hope that they will tell the RIAA where to go and how to get there. Common sense would dictate that since most markets have competition that this would be a no-brainer but we can already see where common sense has lead this issue.

I am of the opinion that music sales are down for two reasons. (1) The price of a CD is not proportional to the costs associated with its production. The music industry promised when CDs were first introduced that the cost would go down once they “recovered their costs” from introducing the format. When people started replacing their entire 8-track/record/cassette collections, it was a windfall that the industry expected to last forever. It had to taper off at some point. They still haven’t adjusted that model. (2) People in general are not interested in “cookie-cutter” type of music. When was the last time an act got discovered and got the publicity they used to? Now, the industry prefers to churn out acts that fit a specific mold designed to generate as much revenue as it quickly can. You seldom see new acts last more than one or two albums before they’re written off by the industry.

OK, I’ve said my piece. Feel free to debate and provide feedback in the comments below. I expect that you will be civil with your comments.

Disclaimer: (1) I am not telling you that I think it’s OK for you to download music without paying for it. It costs real money to write, record and distribute music. That’s worth something. (2) There are those who will never pay for music now that it’s so readily available online. There’s nothing you can do or say that will change their position.

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM

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Van Halen – Pretty Woman

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Today, I roll out a new feature on this site called What were they thinking? and its primary purpose is to show some of the greatest WTF moments in music video history. For my first first video, I present to you Van Halen’s cover of Pretty Woman.

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If you’ve found a music video on YouTube that you’d like to nominate, send an email to edi!!!tor@kickacts.com (remove the !!!) with a comment about your thoughts on the video. You can choose to be anonymous if you like, or we will give you full credit for your submission.

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM

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Entertaining Junk Mail Subject Lines

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I received this link indirectly from an email newsletter and I thought you readers might get a chuckle out of the list of subject lines this guy has received.

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Which one made you smile?

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM

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Incident At Cabela’s

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A woman goes into Cabela’s to buy a rod and reel for her grandson’s birthday.. She doesn’t know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter.

A Cabela’s associate is standing there wearing dark shades. She says, ‘Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?’

He says, ‘Ma’am, I’m completely blind; but if you’ll drop it on the counter, I can tell you everything from the sound it makes.’

She doesn’t believe him but drops it on the counter anyway.

He says, ‘That’s a six-foot Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco 404 reel and 10-LB. Test line. It’s a good all around combination; and it’s on sale this week for only $20.00.’

She says, ‘It’s amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I’ll take it!’ As she opens her purse, her credit card drops on the floor.

‘Oh, that sounds like a Master Card,’ he says.

She bends down to pick it up and accidentally farts. At first she is really embarrassed, but then realizes there is no way the blind clerk could tell it was she who tooted. Being blind, he wouldn’t know that she was the only person around?

The man rings up the sale and says, ‘That’ll be $34.50 please.’

The woman is totally confused by this and asks, ‘Didn’t you tell me the rod and reel were on sale for $20.00? How did you get $34.50?’

He replies, ‘Yes, ma’am. The rod and reel is $20.00, but the Duck Call is $11.00 and the Catfish Bait is $3.50.’

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - April 1, 2009 at 7:58 AM

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Stock Broker Fail

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Don’t pay attention to the guy giving the report, he’s not the focus of the video.

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - March 31, 2009 at 1:00 AM

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Breach Of Contract

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Breach Of Contract

The first question I would ask the candidate is “are you sterile” before I ever went any further. Of course, as a candidate, I would not divulge that I’d been fixed unless specifically asked. Oh, and I’d hang on the the $2500 until my “services” were no longer needed and then I’d offer a refund.

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - March 30, 2009 at 11:49 AM

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Pay Your Bills!

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Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful Queen with large breasts. Nick the Dragon Slayer obsessed over the Queen for this reason. He knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them, but he had to try.

One day Nick revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Horatio the Physician, the King’s chief doctor. Horatio thought about this and said that he could arrange for Nick to more than satisfy his desire, but it would cost him 1000 gold coins to arrange it.  Without pause Nick readily agreed to the scheme.

The next day, Horatio made a batch of itching powder and poured a little bit into the Queen’s bra while she bathed. Soon after she dressed, the itching commenced and grew intense. Upon being summoned to the Royal Chambers to address this incident, Horatio informed the King and Queen that only special saliva, if applied for four hours, would cure this type of itch, and that tests had shown that only the saliva of Nick would work as the antidote to cure the itch.

The King, eager to help his Queen, quickly summoned Nick to their chambers. Horatio then slipped Nick the antidote for the itching powder, which he put into his mouth, and for the next four hours, Nick worked passionately on the Queen’s large and magnificent breasts. The Queen’s itching was eventually relieved, and Nick left satisfied and hailed as a hero. Upon returning to his chamber, Nick found Horatio demanding his payment of 1,000 gold coins. With his obsession now satisfied, Nick couldn’t have cared less and, knowing that Horatio could never report this matter to the King and with a laugh told him to get lost.

The next day, Horatio slipped a massive dose of the same itching powder into the King’s underwear. The King immediately summoned Nick.

The moral of the story ……… Pay your bills.

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Posted by Allen D. Tate - March 29, 2009 at 1:00 AM

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